"What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past."

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"What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past."

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"In more recent years, I've become more and more fascinated with the indigenous folklore of this land, Native American folklore, and also Hispanic folklore now that I live in the Southwest."

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"I have a great respect for the academics who are working with the source material. My hat's off to them."

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"Read the folklore masters. Go to galleries. Walk in the woods. That's what you need to be an artist or storyteller."

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"One of the best things about folklore and fairy tales is that the best fantasy is what you find right around the corner, in this world. That's where the old stuff came from."

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"When I started in the business, there was a thing called adult fantasy, but nobody quite knew what it was, and most publishers didn't have an adult fantasy list. They had science fiction lists, which they stuck a little bit of fantasy into."

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"Since fantasy isn't about technology, the accelleration has no impact at all. But it's changed the lives of fantasy writers and editors. I get to live in England and work for a New York publisher!"

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"Filmmaking can be a fine art."

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"But for me, really, the written word is always stronger than film."

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